Anand Jayakaran, Ph.D. - Research & Projects

Projects

Bannockburn Intelligent River® Project
This project is part of the wider Intelligent River® Project that aims to sense environmental conditions (flow, rainfall, sediment movement, wind speed, evapotranspiration etc) and transmit these data to central locations where they will be processed  in real time to provide environmental managers and decision makers useful information.

My involvement is primarily to characterize stream morphology, quantify the rates of surface runoff, and sediments transported in a relatively unimpacted watershed to gain a better understanding of predevelopment conditions in Southern and Middle Atlantic Coastal Plains. Other Clemson scientists and collaborators involved with this project are Dr. Daniel Hitchcock, Dr. William Conner, Dr. Tom Williams, Dr. Bo Song, Dr. Gene Eidson, Dr. David White, Dr. Christopher Post and Dr. Jason Hallstrom. Funds were obtained through Clemson Public Service and Activities and was initiated in June 2008.



Crabtree Canal Restoration Initiative
This project aims to provide local county agencies with the tools to carry out effective channel restoration to improve the fluvial functioning and stability of a channelized stream. The stream under study is Crabtree Canal and its tributaries that serve as the primary arteries for stormwater flow in the City of Conway, SC. The project is a collaborative project with Coastal Carolina University, the City of Conway and Horry County Stormwater Management.

 

 

Flow and suspended sediment data were collected over the past year and used to calibrate a one-dimensional hydrodynamic model that was used to provide important information in the restoration of a section of Crabtree Canal. Additionally, a two-dimensional model is also being evaluated for this project. Project was initiated in May 2008 and will be completed in June 2009. Further funding is being pursued for additional research and restoration of other parts of Crabtree Canal.

 

Pee Dee Minimum Instream Flows Project
This project aims to quantify what the minimum allowable flows necessary to maintain basic ecosystem functioning in the Pee Dee River basin in South Carolina are. Using a combination of field sampling, and statistical modeling we hope to arrive at a better understanding of how minimum instream flow requirements can be met. The study will be conducted over a five year period beginning in June 2009. Funding was obtained from the PeeDee Endowment Fund. This project is a collaborative project with scientists from Clemson University, the United States Geological Survey, and South Carolina Department of Natural Resources. Clemson scientists involved with the project are Dr. Dara Park and Dr. Daniel Hitchcock.

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